Bloody Samsung.This looks really interesting, but they're talking about the alt-tabing so much it seems like they never even heard of the native multi tasking button.
Bloody Samsung.This looks really interesting, but they're talking about the alt-tabing so much it seems like they never even heard of the native multi tasking button.
googy plz.
So basically, the play store event was the event. 24hrs for media to sort their shit together and then publish?
I WANTS IT.
They're launching it on a Saturday?
Keeping my expectations low. We've been toyed with enough.
bull
this is interesting, because it appeared out of nowhere just before the secret googy event. if i remember correctly the same thing happened with some apps previously that became built in features of android (e.g swiftkey flow and the android keyboard). plus no one actually seems to have got into the beta yet.
maybe this means there will be some kind of geofenced location based switching of settings in kit kat, and cover got wind of this and released info early, when they arent ready to actually give out the beta yet.
also cover looks pretty awesome (longer video than the one on their hompy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oF92fuDIY
I want something like this just as an app though, or just in the app drawer. Aviate takes over the whole phone, this is for the lockscreen. How about just a widget that I can put on half my main screen and let it change based on location. But the other half stays constant with what I want. Is there something like that?
Uh, the Nexus 4 LTE is.... real?!
https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/QLI_viewQDL.cfm?qid=21721
That's the model number of the LG Nexus 4, and the descriptor says LTE mobile phone. Obviously, the original N4 went through Bluetooth certification last year, and this was filed today.
Where did that rumour come from? Was there any other information given with it?Uh, the Nexus 4 LTE is.... real?!
https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/QLI_viewQDL.cfm?qid=21721
That's the model number of the LG Nexus 4, and the descriptor says LTE mobile phone. Obviously, the original N4 went through Bluetooth certification last year, and this was filed today.
Google Now?
Uh, the Nexus 4 LTE is.... real?!
https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/QLI_viewQDL.cfm?qid=21721
That's the model number of the LG Nexus 4, and the descriptor says LTE mobile phone. Obviously, the original N4 went through Bluetooth certification last year, and this was filed today.
Wait, but the model number is exactly the same. So that means not a new model but the old one will get LTE support or what? That should be impossible though.
Where did that rumour come from? Was there any other information given with it?
Where did that rumour come from? Was there any other information given with it?
The components for LTE are in the original model, no? Just that Google locked it out because it wasn't certified or something?
Nexus 4 LTE will be Nexus 5
I thought that too...Yeah but I thought it was a gimped chip that didn't support all the necessary bands?
Yeah but I thought it was a gimped chip that didn't support all the necessary bands?
I felt the exact way after trying buzz and aviate launcher. It may look all fancy and nice but the consistency is gone. That's why i went back to good ol' Nova.The main problem I have using those replacement launchers like Aviate and Themer is that although it does make your phone look nice, it makes the Android design really inconsistent. Like you're looking at a nice white homescreen with large buttons, nice looking pictures such as:
but then you open the app drawer and it's all in a Holo Dark theme totally different from your homescreen. And even if you change the app drawer to make it looks more like the homescreen, you still have other things that follow the current Holo Dark theme Android has going such as the notification shade and the settings.
It's really inconsistent and really detaches from the experience, in my opinion.
We who already own an N4 should get a free replacement if this happensIndeed. It only supports one band. If Google was just going to enable that one band, it wouldn't need to go through Bluetooth certification again, only the FCC.
We who already own an N4 should get a free replacement if this happens
Because entitlement etcWhy?
Because entitlement etc
It's a joke mate.Nobody put a gun to your head to buy the nexus 4
Any doctors in here? We have a broken funny bone.Nobody put a gun to your head to buy the nexus 4
So is kitkat coming out before the nexus 5 then? I thought it was simultaneous?
Paul O'Brien ‏@PaulOBrien 9h
How exciting to think that (if all goes as per 'the plan'), this time next week, we could be getting our Nexus 5s!
Paul O'Brien ‏@PaulOBrien 8h
Always. ;-) RT @mr_bridger @PaulOBrien you know something we don't? ;-) Lol.
Simran Kamboj ‏@kambojsimran 3h
@PaulOBrien the software has some nice changes too, Google now opens as a transparent overlay over the home screen now
Ah, ok. The couple posts about saturday had me confused and didn't want to miss it.It'll be simultaneous.
Also, all the major, good android blogs, are running with MobileSyrup's Oct 31st rumor -- even the most skeptical ones.
Also, Paul O'Brien, of Modaco mod fame, tweeted this:
Someone asked him if he knew something, and he said:
It sounds like announcement and launch all next week.
So Thursday it is then? Are they going to send out invites to an event? Or will it be an info dump?
I have a feeling the press already got their hands on the phone and we will get reviews on both kitkat and the phone the day of.
I think that's how they did it last year but their event was canceled by Idris Elba, and all we got was media info.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask for help but I need help lol. My htc one battery has been draining faster than usual so I looked at my battery usuage and I noticed the android system has been using up most of the power, between 70% and 95% any ideas how to fix this problem?
Nobody put a gun to your head to buy the nexus 4
Google should do this for the N4 crippled LTE band.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...or-the-galaxy-s4-s4-active-s-iii-and-note-ii/
So they are going to have an event but it will only be for show? The media will have already seen the devices and software update? Is that what you're suggesting?
I'm confused.
Samsung getting their S in Gear (& Note)
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...or-the-galaxy-s4-s4-active-s-iii-and-note-ii/
So I deleted BBM for Android. Probably shouldn't have bothered installing it in the first place but wanted to see why BB fanboys were so high on it. I wasn't impressed.
But it's so user friendly and smoothSo I deleted BBM for Android. Probably shouldn't have bothered installing it in the first place but wanted to see why BB fanboys were so high on it. I wasn't impressed.
Ahhhhh. You need to put those pictures in a quote box so you're not killing us desktop people. (What a sad state of affairs when a 24" monitor gets destroyed by a phone screen shot)
I'd just try rebooting the phone. Perhaps a glitch just got the phone stuck in a wakelock. Also I don't see the display listed as consuming power. Does HTC just wrap the display power into Android System? If so that graph would be normal.
Oops my bad. I tried rebooting but nothing happens, tmobile told me to factory reset but don't want to do that..
So, what's the over/under there will be a Verizon version of the N5? And that it will also be in the play store so I don't have to wait an hour at the Verizon store to buy a phone outright.
I actually replaced viber with bbm. The ui isnt quite to android guidelines (and honestly not quite to ios guidelines either) but it works and is smooth.
Apparently the persistent icon is due to blackberry refusing to use GCM for push notifications (and google now mandates that all apps that run in the background have an icon in the notification bar unless they use GCM)